It would dry up the spirit of liberty and progress.

它将摧残自由和进步的精神。

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However, the weather forecast said that it would dry up and it really did.

然而天气预报说雨会停下来，然后真的停了。

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But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers. It would take the ocean about 4, 000 years to dry up.

倡假如现在就不再有雨水落进大西洋，假如一切河流的水现在也都不往大西洋里面流，那么大西洋大约再过4000年就会干涸。

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The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

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If the government were to remove the phones, the transportation, the energy, the subsidies, it would dry up.

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Furthermore, in the unlikely event that the program was successful in curtailing the consumption of "bad" foods, the revenues that support it would dry up.

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He feared it would dry up private charity.

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